Machine Head
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Highway Star
06 : 05
2
Maybe I’m a Leo
04 : 51
3
Pictures of Home
05 : 03
4
Never Before
03 : 56
5
Smoke on the Water
05 : 40
6
Lazy
07 : 19
7
Space Truckin’
04 : 31
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Track Lyrics
Highway Star Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh, it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power
Big fat tires and everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I love it
And I need it
I bleed it
[Chorus]
Yeah, it's a wild hurricane
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
[Verse 2]
Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Ooh, she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth
Body control and everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I love her
I need her
I see her
[Chorus]
Yeah, she turns me on
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
[Organ Solo]
[Verse 3]
Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I'm on the road again
Ooh, I'm in heaven again
I've got everything
Like a moving ground
An open road and everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I love it
And I need it
I seed it
[Chorus]
Eight cylinders, all mine
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh, it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power
Big fat tires and everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I love it
And I need it
I bleed it
[Chorus]
Yeah, it's a mad hurricane
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
Maybe I’m a Leo Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Creeping 'round my door, I got a big surprise
Couldn't see a thing but open skies
They've taken her away
Where is she now?
[Verse 2]
Wish that she was here, I wish she'd hold my hand
Maybe she would laugh, maybe understand
Why was I so cruel?
Where is she now?
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Acting like a fool, I had to make her cry
Maybe I'm a Leo but I ain't a lion
I'm hurtin' oh so bad
I want her now
Pictures of Home Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Somebody's shouting up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody's up there, it's a deception
When will I ever learn?
[Chorus]
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And whispering pictures of home
[Verse 2]
Wondering, blindly, how can they find me?
Maybe they don't even know
My body is shaking, anticipating
The call of the black-hooded crow
[Chorus]
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And taunting with pictures of home
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Here in this prison of my own making
Year after day, I have grown
Into a hero but there's no worship
Where have they hidden my throne?
[Chorus]
I'm alone here
With emptiness, eagles and snow
Unfriendliness chilling my body
And screaming out pictures of home
[Bass Solo]
Never Before Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Somebody, somebody
Come to my side
I'm tired, I'm crying
I'm sick inside
My woman, that woman
Just wasn't right
[Pre-Chorus]
Help me now
Please, my friend
[Chorus]
I never felt so bad before
Never, never before
[Verse 2]
So funny, so funny
Just like a show
One name, two people
All in a row
Somebody, somebody
Someone must go
[Pre-Chorus]
Help me now
Please, my friend
[Chorus]
I never felt so bad before
Never, never before
[Bridge]
I was hurt when I was younger
By a woman who was cold
She took my name, she took my body
And she threw away my soul
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
I can't hide, I can't hide
My misery
I know my sorrow
Won't set me free
She did it, just see
She did it to me
[Pre-Chorus]
Help me now
Please, my friend
[Chorus]
I never felt so bad before
Never, never before
Smoke on the Water Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
But Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
[Chorus]
Smoke on the water
And fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
[Verse 2]
They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
[Chorus]
Smoke on the water
And fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling-truck-Stones-thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights, a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what, we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget
[Chorus]
Smoke on the water
And fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
[Instrumental Outro]
Lazy Lyrics
[Instrumental intro 0:00-4:21]
[Verse 1]
You're lazy, you just stay in bed
You're lazy, just stay in bed
You don't want no money, you don't want no bread, no
If you're drowning, you don't clutch no straw, no, no
If you're drowning, you don't clutch no straw
You don't want to live, don't want to cry no more
[Harmonica Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Well, my crying ain't done no good
I said my trying ain't done no good
You don't make no effort, no, not like you should
Lazy, you just stay in bed
Lazy, you just stay in bed
You don't want no money, you don't want no bread
[Instrumental outro 5:53-7:22]
Space Truckin’ Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Well, we had a lot of luck on Venus
We always had a ball on Mars
We meet with all the groovy people
We rocked the Milky Way so far
[Pre-Chorus]
We danced around with Borealis
We're space truckin' 'round the stars
[Chorus]
Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'
[Verse 2]
Remember when we did the moonshot
And Pony Trekker led the way?
We moved through the Canaveral moonstop
And everynaut would dance and sway
[Pre-Chorus]
Got music in our solar system
We're space truckin' 'round the stars
[Chorus]
Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'
[Verse 3]
The fireball that we rode was moving
But now we've got a new machine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the freaks said
"Man this cat can really swing"
They got music in the solar system
They rocked around the Milky Way
They danced around with Borealis
We're space truckin' every day
[Chorus]
Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'
[Guitar Solo]
[Drum Solo]
[Chorus]
Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, space truckin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, space truckin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, space truckin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, space truckin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, space truckin'